This paper presents a self-powered piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit using frequency conversion. A vibration energy harvesting principle is introduced. Due to a capacitive characteristic of the piezoelectric vibration transducer, an energy harvesting circuit is proposed for matching the capacitive impedance. The energy harvesting circuit consists of a matching circuit with up-conversion, ...

A novel approach is proposed for a high step-up and high efficiency converter with a low switch stress. The integrated boost-flyback converter uses coupled-inductor techniques to achieve high step-up voltage with low duty ratio, and thus the slope compensation circuit is disregarded. The proposed circuit topology improving high-gain ratio, increasing efficiency, reducing the secondary side of c...

A new converter using a switched-inductor cell integrated with a switched-capacitor cell within a boost-like structure is proposed. The converter can achieve a very high dc conversion ratio. It can serve as the front-end dc-dc converter for a fuel cell in a UPS system. The inductors and capacitors are switched in a parallel-series configuration. The charging circuit of the inductors from the so...

This paper presents the development of a DC-DC boost converter. In the proposed boost converter design, a passive regenerative snubber circuit is included to absorb the energy of stray inductance so as to reduce the IGBT switching losses. MATLAB simulation as well as an experiment results are conducted to validate the proposed device. The results show that the proposed boost converter design gi...

In this paper, a new structure for buck-boost Z-source converter based on Z-H topology is proposed. The proposed converter consists of two LC networks similar to the conventional Z-source and Z-H converters. One of the characteristics of the proposed structure is that, without any changing in its’ power circuit, it can be used in different conversions such as dc/dc, dc/ac and ac/ac. This unique...

Was concentrated on tree phase matrix converter topology. Single-phase Matrix converter or SPMC was first implemented by Zuckerbeger4. Now presented a.Abstract. This paper presents the single phase matrix converter topology that will operate as an uninterruptible power supply circuit. A single circuit is developed.Single phase matrix converter SPMC performs a function such as frequency changer,...

A bipolar high precision voltage-to-frequency converter is described. The circuit includes an input voltage-to-current conversion stage followed by a current-controlled multivibrator. The multivibrator trigger includes a window comparator with a limiter of the output voltage swing, and the timing capacitor discharge current is switched simultaneously with the window comparator bias. This allows...

In this paper, a cardiac sense amplifier, i.e. the front end of a pacemaker, based on the Dynamic Translinear (DTL) circuit technique is presented. The system consists of a voltage-to-current converter, a bandpass filter, absolute value and RMS-DC converter circuits and an event detection circuit. From simulations, it is demonstrated that the DTL technique is a good alternative to conventional ...

This paper studies the rotation map with a controlling segment. As a parameter varies, the map exhibits superstable periodic orbits, chaos and rich bifurcation phenomena. The map is applicable to an A/D converter having efficient resolution characteristics. The converter can be realized as a circuit model based on a spiking neuron and the rate-coding. Presenting a test circuit, basic operation ...